IS TECHCRUNCH DOOMED BY PAYOLA SCANDAL?

February 8th, 2010

Late final week, tech biz bloggers were repelled — and a couple of were rigourously happy — to review which TechCrunch owner Mike Arrington had dismissed 17-year-old intern, businessman and Internet fameball Daniel Brusilovsky . Arrington pronounced a teenage overachiever had supposed a mechanism from a association in sell for coverage upon TechCrunch. Brusilovsky additionally admitted, Arrington said, to asking a opposite startup for a MacBook Air, which led which association to protest to Arrington. Not usually did Big Mike cut Brusilovsky from staff, he private all of Daniel’s posts — we counted 70 of them in Google’s cache — and posted a vehement and legally-vetted outline of a events, patrician “ An Apology to Our Readers .” So of march a prohibited subject of contention between internal reporters over a week end was, is TechCrunch’s repute shot now? TechCrunch isn’t a newspaper, so a staff aren’t firm by a timeless and really despotic bounds since to imitation headlines writers. Things have been opposite during a papers. we plea we to try to buy cooking for a New York Times reporter.


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Is TechCrunch cursed by payola scandal?

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